BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

silvan-desouza Priyadarshan started off the trend of Situational comedies starting of with Hera Pheri, Hungama but slowly the trend got repetitive De Dana Dan is perhaps the last comedy film by him, hopefully. The film has such a huge cast, we can get lost, it has Akshay, Sunil, Katrina, Sameera, Vikram Gokhale, Manoj Joshi, Shakti Kapoor, Johny Lever, Rajpal Yadav.etc Priyadarshan always known as the guy who is the best in aking confusion come alive on screen goes overboard this time and the film gets irritating, we have similar stock characters, the comedy dies down and gets boring For some reason Akshay is locked in a cupboard for half the film, The climax shows a flood in the hotel(shot in Mumbai) and the confusion is not solved.Direction by Priyadarshan is so-so Music by Pritam is good, Baamulaiza is a good song though Sunil's steps look odd, rest are okayAmongst the huge cast Akshay Kumar is as usual in his role, lending a few laughs, Suneil Shetty too is decent in his part, Katrina annoys with a dubbed voice and adds nothing, Sameera Reddy is okay, Tinnu Anand is loud, ManoJ Joshi screams throughout, Vikram GOkhale is okay, Sharat Saxena is as usual, Johny Lever is funny, Rajpal is as usual, Shakti Kapoor is as usual rest are okay

user-179-103176 Most people say this is stupid movie making with no story and a rubbish movie, that is simply not true. This movie does have a story, a smart one at that also. Most people say it doesn't, what were you people doing when the movie was playing its a simple story and a different from all the other comedies we've been seeing.The songs were pretty good even thought they were just chucked in but its PRIYADARSHAN so we know stupid stuff will be happeningPriyadarshan does a good job at directing. There are so many characters in one hotel about 26 and he manages to make them all have a fair part in the movie.The performances were awesome Akshay was fantastic his face expressions to the way he talks is hilarious. Suneil does very good too and makes us laugh. Everybody else does a great job to making it more hilariousIn the end de dana dan is a slapstick comedy that does make you laugh. I don't know what people were expecting that made it a let down. Of course it not 3 idiots but as far as slapstick's go it is funny unlike a lot coming out recently like Rascals. So leave your brains behind and go watch this crazy and hilarious comedy.

Ganesh Salian De Dana Dan is a dead comedy.All the actors just shout,shout and shout in the movie which instead of a comedy makes it look like a tragedy.Priyadarshan's direction is bad.The climax is weak The music is weak Dialogs are very good.Performance-De Dana Dan has India's best comedians,but there are only few who stand out.They are in this order-Johnny Lever,Vikram Gokhale and Asrani .Akshay Kumar too is good.Suniel Shetty is okay.Katrina Kaif and Sameera Reddy are forgettable.Neha Dhupia is fine.Chunky Pandey is also good.Archana Puran Singh,Paresh Rawal,Rajpal Yadav,Shakti Kapoor,Sharat Saxena,Tinnu Anand & Manoj Joshi shout.Overall De Dana Dan is boring.

sumanbarthakursmailbox They couldn't have come up with a more inappropriate title for the new Akshay Kumar starrer than De Dana Dan, a term usually used to signify something quick. The thing is, Priyadarshan's latest comedy is anything but quick. At two hours and 40 minutes, it's a laboriously long, patience-testing exercise in idiocy about some 20-odd characters stuck in a five-star hotel where mistaken identities and misunderstandings result in loud arguments, comic-book action and crude humor. Akshay Kumar plays down-on-his-luck servant boy Nitin Bankar, who can't take any more humiliation from his tyrant boss, and finally conspires with his buddy to kidnap her beloved pooch and demand a ransom. The dog, as it turns out, is smarter than the men. He escapes from their hands, but the police believe that Nitin has been kidnapped. Don't ask how this situation leads to the one in the hotel, but it does. There's a wedding happening, a murder attempted, a prostitute being solicited, and lots of money changing hands. Eventually, it ends with a bomb exploding in the water tank and a flood - think Titanic here – gutting the entire hotel. In the tradition of many recent low-brow comedies from the same director, De Dana Dan is cheerfully dumb and doesn't aspire for anything more than cheap laughs. The film's first half is dreadfully dull, and the second only marginally better. Rajpal Yadav as a corrupt waiter, and Johnny Lever as a bumbling hit-man are the two bright spots in this annoying ensemble that includes talented actors like Paresh Rawal, Vikram Gokhale and Archana Puran Singh who pretty much spend the entire film yelling at the top of their lungs. Neha Dhupia scores with a winning turn as the hot-headed hooker who just wants to get her money and leave. The film's leading man, Akshay Kumar, sportingly goes along with the silliness, but he's done all of this many times before. In the film's second half, he's locked up in a closet for about 40 minutes, leaving the rest of the cast to carry on the show. How you wish you could hide somewhere too, or slip into a coma even – anything really to avoid watching the rest of this drivel. Over the years one has lowered one's expectations considerably when going in to watch a Priyadarshan comedy.De Dana Dan is no different.